Lipid
Bilayers and Membrane ChannelJSmol
Introduces cholesterol and phospholipids, then proceeds to lipid bilayer
and the gramicidin membrane channel embedded within the bilayer. Includes
molecular dynamics simulations of both gel and fluid membrane states.
By Eric Martz and Angel Herráez.

Proteopedia.OrgJSmol: Many excellent tutorials, and
it is the easiest place to create and share customized molecular scenes,
or molecular structure tutorials.
Easy enough for student reports or homework assignments!
See
teaching strategies.

Author Your Own Jmol Tutorials Easily at
Proteopedia.Org!
JSmol
The Scene Authoring Tool there makes it easy to customize
molecular views in Jmol.
You don't need to learn any script, HTML, or other
languages. Your descriptions and molecular scenes will be online immediately!
See
Comparisons.

Interactive
Molecular Tutorial Collections

HighSchool.MolviZ.Org includes interactive molecules
selected for high school curricula, alphabet traits fingerprinting,
instructions for making DNA earrings, instructions for making molecules
from balloons, and much more.

BioMolecular
Explorer 3D
(Jmol)
is a collection of 3D-interactive, biologically
significant molecules relevant to a high school biology curriculum. Designed
by Frieda S. Reichsman,
the site simplifies finding, preparing for, and using molecular visualization
resources at the high school level. Includes:

FirstGlance in Jmol
(firstglance.jmol.org)
enables you to explore any molecule using menus
and buttons, without learning any commands, and
with nothing to install (Java is optional).
It works immediately with all popular browsers and computer types
including recent iPads and smart phones, and is used for the 3D View
links in the journal
Nature,
among
others.

FirstGlance in Jmol offers numerous one-click preset views,
makes it easy to hide portions of the molecule,
find residues by sequence or name,
show all protein disulfide bonds, salt bridges and cation-pi orbital
interactions. Its Contacts.. dialog
shows non-covalent bonds to any
target moiety that you select by clicking, dividing them into seven
categories that you can hide or display with checkboxes.

ConSurf makes it easy for you to identify
functional regions of proteins. Each amino acid is colored
by evolutionary conservation, thereby revealing conserved or highly
variable patches.
Results may be displayed in
FirstGlance in Jmol or other viewers.

Given a 3D model or
PDB code
this user-friendly
tool finds related protein sequences,
performs multiple sequence alignments,
constructs a phylogenetic tree,
and assigns a conservation level to each amino acid,
all automatically!

Optionally, you can select the sequences and upload your own
multiple sequence alignment, which will be used by ConSurf's
state-of-the-art algorithms, all of which are published in peer-reviewed journals.

Fantastic
Teaching Props

Toobers in Science Education: Model Your Favorite
Polymer

Toobers
are inexpensive, easy to bend, foam-covered rods that hold the shapes
you give them, over and over again!

They are very useful in illustrating macromolecular structure concepts.
Great for all levels of science from K-12 to undergraduate. We
feature several examples and also short movies to illustrate their use.

Related Resources

FirstGlance in Jmol is the easiest way to make high quality images
and presentation-ready animations.
See Examples.
However, FirstGlance does not support customization
of colors and rendering in the molecular view.
Also the images generated by Jmol in FirstGlance are not quite as high quality as those generated
by PyMOL.

Polyview-3D generates its images and animations at truly publication quality using PyMOL.
Furthermore, it supports full customization of the molecular view.

Giant model of the monomer of nylon from
Miramodus.Com.
(Photo used with permission.)

Molecular Sculpture
by scientists, artists, and artist-scientists are highlighted in this collection.

Julian Voss-Andreae's Alpha Helix for Linus Pauling
(photo used with permission). The 10-foot (3 m) sculpture was created to honor the memory of
Linus Pauling, who discovered the alpha helix in 1951.
The sculpture is located in front of Linus Pauling's boyhood home in Portland, Oregon.

The History
of Visualization of Biological Macromolecules answers questions
such as, Where did MDL Chime come from? What about Fred's Folly and Byron's
Bender? See early computer images, physical models including the latest
by computer-driven laser-powered rapid-prototype engineering, and the
latest molecular sculpture.

Knots in Proteins!

Are
protein chains ever knotted? It's rare but it does happen—
get a good look at some Knots in Proteins!.